March 12, 1868. [No. 19.] A Resolution providing for the Issue of Clothing to Soldiers and others, to replace Clothing destroyed to prevent Contagion. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Gratuitous is of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he sues of clothing to soldiers who is hereby, authorized, at any time, on the recommendation of the surgeonhave had con- general of the army, to order gratuitous issues of clothing to soldiers who tagious diseases, have had contagious diseases, and to hospital attendants who have nursed and attended such soldiers, to replace the articles of their clothing which have been destroyed by order of the proper medical officers to prevent contagion. &c. APPROVED, March 12, 1868. March 12, 1868. [No. 20.] Joint Resolution relative to the Post-Office and Sub-Treasury of City of Boston. Post-office, sub-treasury, &c. in Boston. Commission to purchase site. Amount of purchase-mo Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the mayor and postmaster of the city of Boston, the assistant treasurer of the United States at the city of Boston, the president of the Board of Trade of the city of Boston, Alpheus Hardy and Daniel Davis, of Boston, be appoir. ed a commission to purchase a site for a building to accommodate the post-office, subtreasury, and public offices of the United States in the city of Boston, in accordance with their report submitted to the Postmaster-General and the Secretary of the Treasury, and by them approved, viz. The estates lying on Devonshire Street, and between Water Street and Milk Street, in the city of Boston, (containing about thirty thousand square feet,) and that they be authorized to purchase the same for a sum not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay such sum of money as may be necessary to carry the foregoing resolutions into effect from any money in the treasury hereafter Title to be ap- to be appropriated: Provided, That no money shall be paid out of the proved. treasury in pursuance of this resolution, until the title to the aforesaid estates shall be properly certified by the United States district attorney for the district of Massachusetts. ney. March 16, 1868. rebuilt. APPROVED, March 12, 1868. [No. 23.] A Resolution to authorize the Erection of a military Storehouse at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Military store- of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and house at Fort Monroe may be he is hereby, authorized to grant permission to William H. Kimberly, army and navy contractor at Fort Monroe, Virginia, to rebuild the military storehouse recently destroyed by fire at that post, upon such conditions and under such restrictions as the Secretary of War shall deem compatible with the interests of the government. APPROVED, March 16, 1868. March 24, 1868. [No. 24.] Joint Resolution appointing Managers of the National Asylum for Disabled Soldiers, and for other Purposes. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Managers of States of America in Congress assembled, That Erastus B. Walcott, of national asylum Wisconsin, John H. Martindale, of New York, and Hugh L. Bond, of for disabled soldiers. Maryland, be, and hereby are, appointed managers of the National Asy1866, ch. 21, 3. lum for Disabled Soldiers, under the provisions and conditions of the third Vol. xiv. p. 10. section of an act approved March twenty-third [first], eighteen hundred and sixty-six, from the twenty-first of April, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight; and that Hugh L. Bond, of Maryland, be, and is hereby, appointed manager to serve out the unexpired term of Horatio G. Stebbins, of California, resigned. Ordnance for firing salutes. SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That the Secretary of War be authorized to furnish, from the captured ordnance, such ordnance with their implements as he may deem proper, to the several national asylums for the purpose of firing salutes; and also such small-arms and equipments as may be necessary for the purpose of guard duty at the asylums. duty. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives. B. F. WADE, President of the Senate pro tempore. Endorsed by the President: "Received 12th March, 1868." [NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. The foregoing resolution having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] Small arms, &c. for guard [No. 25.] Joint Resolution requiring certain Moneys of the United States to be paid into March 30, 1868. the Treasury, and for other Purposes. Money received from sales Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unite States of America in Congress assembled, That all moneys which have been received by any officer or employe[e] of the government, or any of captured, department thereof, from sales of captured and abandoned property in &c. property to the late insurrectionary districts, under or under color of the several be paid into the treasury, with acts of Congress providing for the collection and sale of such property, interest, if, &c. and which have not already been actually covered into the treasury, shall immediately be paid into the treasury of the United States, together with any interest which has been received or accrued thereon. over such mo zlement. SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That if any officer or person having Refusing or the custody, possession, or control of any money derived or arising from neglecting to pay the sale or other disposition of any such property mentioned in the pre- ney, &c. to be ceding section shall convert the same to his own use, or shall refuse or deemed embezneglect for the space of thirty days next after the passage of this resolution to pay the same into the treasury of the United States, or shall in anywise pay away or dispose of the same otherwise than by paying the same into the treasury as aforesaid, shall be deemed and held guilty of embezzling the public money of the United States, and shall be punished Penalty. therefor by imprisonment for a term of not more than ten years, and shall pay a fine equal to the sum so embezzled. SEC. 3. And be it further resolved, That a sum of the proceeds of such Appropriation sales not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated sales to defend of proceeds of for the payment of the necessary expenses incurred by or under the au- suits, &c. thority of the Secretary of the Treasury for incidental expenses in acting under the laws respecting the collection and disposition of captured and abandoned property, and for the necessary expenses of defending, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, such suits as have been brought against him or his agents in the premises, and for prosecuting suits in the United States for the recovery of such property, and for providing for the defence of the United States against suits for or in respect to such property in the court of claims. APPROVED, March 30, 1868. [No. 28.] A Resolution for the Appointment of a Commission to select suitable Locations May 19, 1868. for Powder Magazines. to select loca Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy Commission be, and ke hereby is, authorized and directed to select three competent tions for powder officers of the navy to constitute a commission, whose duty it shall be to magazines. examine and report upon the practicability of securing more suitable sites for powder magazines than those now used in the vicinity of New York, Boston, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire; also to report the cost of procuring the said sites and the probable expense of erecting maga zines thereon. APPROVED, May 19, 1868. May 20, 1868. [No. 30.] Joint Resolution concerning certain Lands granted to Railroad Companies in the States of Michigan and Wisconsin. Lands granted to Michigan and Wisconsin for not to be forfeit- Proviso. Proviso. Proviso. Patent to Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company for eighty acres of land of Fort Howard military Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a failure to grade twenty miles of the roads within two years from the passage of the act entitled "An act to extend the time for the completion of certain railroads to which land grants have been made in the States of Michigan and Wisconsin," approved on the third day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and twenty miles additional thereof in each year thereafter, as required by said act, shall not cause any forfeiture or reversion to the United States of any lands granted to the said States, or either of them, to aid in the construction of the railroads described: Provided, That said companies, or either of them, shall fully complete their said railroads in the manner required by law on or before the thirty-first December, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-two, at which time a failure shall forfeit the lands to the United States: Provided, [That] the provisions of this section shall apply only to the chartered and projected line of railway from the city of Fond du Lac in the State of Wisconsin, northerly to Esconaba, in the State of Michigan, and the chartered and projected line of railway from Marquette, in the State of Michigan, westerly to Outonagon, in the same State: And provided further, That if the said Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad Company, in the State of Michigan, shall not have completed according to law ten additional miles of their railroad, on or before the first day of January A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and shall not in like manner complete ten miles of said railroad in each and every year thereafter, then it shall be lawful for the legislature of the said State of Michigan to declare the grant of lands to said company to be forfeited and to confer the said grant of lands upon some other company in the same manner as if the said grant was now for the first time made to the said State of Michigan. SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That the commissioner of the general land office be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause a patent, in due form of law, to be issued to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, in pursuance of a resolution passed by Congress granting the same to the State of Wisconsin, approved April twenty-five, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and an act of Vol. xii. p. 618. the legislature of Wisconsin, approved June sixteen, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two, granting the same to said company for eighty acres of land of the Fort Howard military reserve, as the same was surveyed and approved by said commissioner on the eleventh June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-four. reserve. June 5, 1868. APPROVED, May 20, 1868. [No. 31.] Joint Resolution in Relation to the Breakwater at Portland, Maine. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriation States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the breakwater in Portland harbor, Maine, as the chief engineer shall deem proper, may be expended under his direction in excavating the "middle ground" near said breakwater, and in otherwise protecting the channel from injury by filling and improving the same. for breakwater at Portland, Maine, may be expended how. APPROVED, June 5, 1868. [No. 32.] Joint Resolution to supply Books and public Documents to the National Asylum June 8, 1868. for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. volunteer sol Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Books and Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives cause to be sent ments to napublic docuto the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Dayton, Ohio, tional asylum and to the branches at Augusta, Maine, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and for disabled the Soldiers' Home at Knightstown Springs, near Knightstown, Indiana, diers, and each, one copy, each, of the following documents, namely: The journals branches. of each house of Congress at each and every session; all laws of Congress; the annual messages of the President, with accompanying documents; and all other documents or books which may be printed and bound by order of either house of Congress, including the Congressional Globe; beginning with the thirty-seventh Congress. APPROVED, June 8, 1868. Preamble. [No. 33.] Joint Resolution to provide for the Removal of a Suit pending in the Circuit June 10, 1868. circuit court of Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Suit in circuit States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of court of Jefferson the circuit court of the United States for the district of West Virginia, if County, West in session, or of the judge thereof in vacation, on the application of the Virginia, to be defendant in said suit, showing that the property sought to be recovered removed to the by the said suit is owned, or claimed by the United States under color of the United title, and verifying the facts set out in such application by this [his] States. affidavit, to issue a writ by certiorari, directed to the said State court, directing it to send the record and proceedings in said suit to the said circuit court of the United States, a duplicate of which writ shall be delivered to the clerk of the said State court, or left at his office by the marshal of the said district, or his deputy or other person thereto duly authorized, and thereupon the said State court shall stay all further proceedings in said suit; and upon the return of the said writ, the said suit shall be docketed in the said circuit court of the United States, and there proceeded in according to law, and all further proceedings had therein in the said State court shall be null and void. APPROVED, June 10, 1868. [No. 34.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish Supplies to an exploring Expedition." June 11, 1868. the river Colo Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, Exploration of and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to issue rations for twenty- rado. five men of the expedition engaged in the exploration of the river Colorado, under direction of Professor Powell, while engaged in that work: Provided, That such issue is not detrimental to the interests of the military service. APPROVED, June 11, 1868. June 19, 1868. [No. 37.] Joint Resolution requesting the President to intercede with her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, to secure the speedy Release of Reverend John McMahon, convicted on a Charge of Treason-Felony, and now confined at Kingston, Canada West. tercede for the release of Rev. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United The President States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the requested to in- United States be requested to intercede with her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, for the purpose of securing the speedy release of the Reverend John McMahon, of Indiana, convicted on a charge of treason-felony at Toronto, Canada West, in the fall of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and now confined in the State prison, at Kingston, in said province. John McMahon. APPROVED, June 19, 1868. June 25, 1868. [No. 38.] Joint Resolution authorizing certain distilled Spirits to be turned over to the Surgeon-General for the Use of the Army Hospitals. Certain dis tilled spirits to be delivered to the surgeongeneral. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to deliver to the surgeon-general of the army all the distilled spirits produced during the experiments made by the late commission for testing meters for the internal-revenue Payment, and service, to be used for the army hospitals, and to be paid for at a reasonhow applied. able cost out of any moneys appropriated for the purchase of army hospital stores, the amount received to be applied toward the expenses of said commission. APPROVED, June 25, 1868. June 25, 1868. [No. 39.] A Resolution authorizing a Change of Mail Service between Fort Abercrombie and Helena. Mail service between Fort Abercrombie and Helena. June 25, 1868. Site of Fort Covington, in Maryland, to be sold. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to change the character of the mail service from Fort Abercrombie, Dakota Territory, to Helena, Montana Territory, to post coach service. APPROVED, June 25, 1868. [No. 40.] Joint Resolution to provide for the Sale of the Site of Fort Covington, in the State of Maryland. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell in entirety or by subdivisions, at public auction to the highest bidder, after thirty days' notice in three daily newspapers in the city of Baltimore, one of which newspapers shall be published in the German language, a certain tract of land belonging to the United States, situate within the limits of the said city, on the Patapsco river, Maryland, known as the site of Fort Covington, containing about two and three-quarters acres, more or less, with all the tenements, rights, Proceeds, how and privileges pertaining thereto; and that the proceeds of such sale shall applied. be paid into the treasury of the United States. APPROVED, June 25, 1868. June 25, 1868. [No. 41.] Joint Resolution directing the Secretary of State to present to George Wright, Master of the British Brig "J. and G. Wright," a Gold Chronometer, in Appreciation of his personal Services in saving the Lives of three American Seamen, wrecked at Sea on Board of the American Schooner "Lizzie F. Choate," of Massachusetts. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Chronometer States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State to be presented to Capt. George be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be procured and Wright. presented to George Wright, master of the British brig "J. and G. |